Workshop Statement

This workshop will feature a presentation of “The Taxi Takes on the World” followed by a hands-on workshop of citizen journalism. The participants will be divided into groups of journalists and shooters. These groups will be expected to hit the streets of Albuquerque together to film their conversations with a driver inside taxis. This footage will be screened at the second session on September 24th. The second workshop will also provide training for another group of participants to pair up for training to shoot. All of the footage collected during and after these workshops will be used in the global online project.

• Vandana Sood-Giddings is a media maker, writer and yogi from India. She is currently based in Bozeman Montana, USA, where she teaches yoga and works as a freelance artist and writer. In 2006 she completed a 10 day silent Vipassana meditation from Dharamkot in India.   vandanasood.com